Subject: Re: [PATCH] General CHRP/MPC5K2 Platform and drivers support - to comment

From: Matt Sealey <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:56:29 +0200

Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
>> so you can have a Book E with AltiVec, or has it's own new
>> book (VLE, which is an IBM-ified copy of the e200 Core
>> Reference Manual Addendum)
> 
> There is far more new in the 2.03 spec than just merging of various
> existing specs as you are stating.  Please be more careful with general
> statements like this.  The Book III-E has some significant changes from
> Book-E 1.0.

I don't think any of it suddenly makes a billion existing processors
completely incompatible.

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Matt Sealey <[email-masked]>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations